We need civil disobedience and massive non-collaboration with illegitimate authority if we are to reverse course on global climate change.read more

Ten years after President Bush withdrew the United States from the Kyoto climate change agreement, the United States is still dragging its feet on global warming.read more

After the midterm elections earlier this month, we have 50 new members of Congress who don't believe in global warming. Don't believe in global warming? Well, the earth doesn't care what we believe. It cares what we do. As Lauren Whitehead highlights in this brilliant poem, the earth is an angry woman, and we need to be humble before her -- or fear her whiplash.read more

THE SPOKEN WORD ARCHIVE

How the Obama Administration caved in on the global warming bill.read more

If global warming is the culprit, we’ll need to send more than helicopters and international aid teams to Pakistan. We’ll need nothing less that “a sweeping ecological transformation of society.”read more

Getting a little hot in your city this summer? While it might make for great lemonade weather, not to mention an air-conditioned cash cow for energy companies, this has been the hottest summer on record in many parts of the country -- something just ain't right. George Watsky, an award-winning poet who has performed at the US Green Building Council and many environmental events across the country, reminds us to look beyond the sweat and search for the answers in the fog. read more

The Obama Administration has been disappointing on global warming, and much of the American public is in full denial mode.read more

At a meeting of editorial writers, a local utility CEO tried to get away with a whopper.read more

“The U.S. has lost a lot of time—the world has lost a lot of time—in moving from fossil fuels to alternatives,”read more

We ignore Rajendra Pachauri at our peril.read more